RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.
Wednesday, August 12. (Before J. Bathgate, Esq., R.M.)
IJrijnkekness.—Daniel Stephenson and Ana Rhodes were discharged with a caution ; John Macdonald and Michael t> aiding were each filled jl6s, wiffy option of forty,eight hours’ imprisonment. Stealing Mcir and James Mason were charged by the Harbor Company with stealing half-a-gallon of beer, of the value of Is 3d, from the Jetty street wharf The men had been caught by a wharf-collector in the act of abstracting beer from the cask, and running it into a basket. ‘iis Worship said it was right that prisoners and others should know that owners of property were bound* to lsavp j;hipg3 expo ad, and th§y had a right to trust to the law for Its protection, Every working man should be able to earn money, apd pay for their drink, without resorting to such a degrading act as this. Each prisoner was sentenced to fourteen days’ imprisonment. Ihkft.— George O’Brien, a young man, was charged on the information of Sergeant Bevan with having, on August 11, sto en a cedar box of the value of L 4, the property of George Woods, coach proprie-or, at Anderson’s Bay. —Mr Johnson defended.—Sub Inspector Mallard explained that prisoner had the box in a boat, and boat capsizing, the man who was with prisoner in the boat was drowneff. The police were now searching for the till next day, prisoner to be admitted to bail, himself in the sum of L2O, and two suritie s of LIO each.
Neglected Child —Mary Anne Jackson was with being a neglected child The mother, it adpeared, was an habitual drunkard, ahJ’thc police wished the child to be removed to the industrial School.—Mrs Jackson, on being questioned, said that the child was three weeks old.—His Worship (addressing her) ; Can your feelings us a mother be so dead that a child three weeks old must be brought into this Court as a neglected child? I never heard of such a thing. 1 §fnnot believe it possible that the feelings of a mjotffer £&a be go dead as they seem to be with you- tt is y.Qu who should be taken up. Yon are the most Dpelsricholy spectacle 1 have ever seen ijj this Court. The woman who will allow an infant—a sucking child three weeks old—to be brought into a Court of Justice as a neglected child must Jjs devoid of feeling. I never heard anything like thajb brought under my notice before. I cannot’'send tjais child to the school, the Act was neyer intended for suph a case. Youehoßd be punished for'allowing her to be brought up. Cruelty ,of this sort should not pass unnoticed. I fag police will watch you, and if you misbehave yourself or ill-treat that child, you will be brougfft up yourself under another statute. I hope the police will keep strict watch over you, and if you are guilty of drunkenness or improper conduct towards that child, so that if it dies, you will have to stand at the bar of the Supreme Court to atswer for a serious charge,—The case was withdrawn. ij? ' [Left sitting,]
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Evening Star, Issue 3579, 12 August 1874, Page 2
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520RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT. Evening Star, Issue 3579, 12 August 1874, Page 2
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